#aerogollumturbof1 wrote: YOU SHALL NOT......STALLLLL!!!
It was, but not about specific technical Details. It was about the general Performance of the Car and Team. And that belongs in the Team Thread.
#aerogollumturbof1 wrote: YOU SHALL NOT......STALLLLL!!!
That’s one of the best pictures of an F1 floor I’ve ever seeing... Thank you for sharing!f1rules wrote:
Making more power from the same displacement = a more efficient PU. Therefore it seems logical that the Merc PU uses less fuel than the Renault PU.PhillipM wrote: ↑07 Apr 2021, 22:16Little interesting snippet over the weekend - the fuel tank was allowed to be altered as part of the engine install for packaging the front of the merc unit, and they made it ~3l smaller than the renault one.
Whether that's just because they had to compromise on alterations, or purely the merc engine efficiency allowing smaller/better packaging there, I don't know, maybe someone else can ask around and find more out.
wow that's a cool nugget. sounds like a big dealPhillipM wrote: ↑07 Apr 2021, 22:16Little interesting snippet over the weekend - the fuel tank was allowed to be altered as part of the engine install for packaging the front of the merc unit, and they made it ~3l smaller than the renault one.
Whether that's just because they had to compromise on alterations, or purely the merc engine efficiency allowing smaller/better packaging there, I don't know, maybe someone else can ask around and find more out.
I doubt the FIA would have forced them to design it in a way that would make it smaller if McLaren can show that it would hamper performance. Just like the FIA saying they were trying to minimise any performance gain through the change in the PU I also think that they were trying to allow as much as possible so McLaren wouldn't be hampered by the PU change.